Whose promised land?

PUB. DATE

April 1997

SOURCE

Junior Scholastic;04/18/97, Vol. 99 Issue 17, p3

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Focuses on the disputes between the Palestinian Arabs and the Israeli Jews. Historical roots of the ongoing violence between the two countries; United Nations' failure to separate the two countries between Arabs and Jews in 1947; Wars in Israel; Palestinians' denouncement of the plan to build housing for Jews in East Jerusalem; Intifada uprising in 1987; 1993 peace plan between Israeli and Palestinian leader.